164 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



submedian and internal straiglit. Body moderately stout ; palpi thick, flat in front, 

 terminal joint very stort, thick, conical, and imbedded among the scales ; antennae 

 rather long, slender, club thickish, abruptly bent near end and pointed at tip. 

 Type, M. Aria. 



MATAPA ARIA (Plate 66, Fig. 1, la). 



Hesperia Aria, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 254 (1857). 

 Ismene Aria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 784. 



Male and female. Upperside chocolate-brown, base of costa ochreous : forewing 

 with a lower discal oblique impressed comma-like grey glandular streak. Cilia 

 ochreous-white on forewing, ochreous on hindwing. Underside dark ferruginous- 

 brown. Palpi ferruginous-brown. Female. Upperside slightly paler. Cilia of 

 hindwing brighter ochreous. Underside bright ferruginous-brown. 



Expanse c? ? 1| to 2^ inches. 



" Colombo. Plains and forest. During S.W. monsoon. Settles on leayes " 

 {Hutchison). 



" Kandy. Uncommon. Found in Guinea-grass " (IFacZe). 



" Appears twice a year generally — in January and July ; at other times very 

 scarce " (Maclctvood). 



MATAPA SUBPASCIATA (Plate 64, Fig. 3, a, h). 

 Ismene subfasciata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 686. 



Male. Upperside dark velvety umber-brown ; costal edge of forewing slightly 

 ochreous. Cilia of both wings ochreous. Underside paler : forewing with a pale 

 pink triangular costal patch before the apex ; posterior border ochreous, adorned 

 with a large hairy tuft : hindwing with a transverse pink fascia across middle of the 

 wing. Eyes red. Legs beneath and anal tuft ochreous. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Larva pale purplish-grey, with indistinct darker transverse dorsal lines; head 

 black spotted. Feeds on Palmace^. Pupa pale olivaceous-yeUow. 



Genus GANGARA. 

 Wings large : forewing elongated, triangular ; costa arched at the base, apex 

 bluntly pointed ; exterior margin short, oblique ; cell broad, clavate, extending 

 two-thirds the wing; subcostal much arched along the cell, its branches at equal 

 distances apart, first branch at two-fifths before end of the cell ; discocellulars 

 inwardly oblique, upper bent near subcostal, upper radial from its angle, lower from 

 their middle ; the middle median at one-sixth and lower at four-sixths before end 

 of the cell; submedian curved in the middle: hindwing short, broad, somewhat 



